Effects of self-avoidance on the tubular phase of anisotropic membranes

M. Bowick and E. Guitter
Phys. Rev. E 56, 7023 – Published 1 December 1997
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Abstract

We study the tubular phase of self-avoiding anisotropic membranes. We discuss the renormalizability of the model Hamiltonian describing this phase, and from a renormalization group equation derive some general scaling relations for the exponents of the model. We show how particular choices of renormalization factors reproduce the Gaussian result, the Flory theory, and the Gaussian variational treatment of the problem. We then study the perturbative renormalization to one loop in the self-avoiding parameter using dimensional regularization and an ε expansion about the upper critical dimension, and determine the critical exponents to first order in ε.

  • Received 7 May 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.56.7023

©1997 American Physical Society

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M. Bowick

  • Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130

E. Guitter

  • CEA, Service de Physique Théorique de Saclay, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France

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Vol. 56, Iss. 6 — December 1997

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